Parents stay offline when child has cancer
Parents prefer to receive information from a trusted healthcare provider rather than the Internet when their son or daughter is diagnosed with cancer.
Patient Preferences
On-site lab reduces repeat surgeries
A new service has helped reduce the number of women who need additional surgery after an initial resection for breast cancer.
Prostate cancer treatment mismatched with clinical benefit
Therapy has become more aggressive for men with a low likelihood of clinical benefit, but not for men with a high likelihood of clinical benefit.
Blood cancers often require termination of early pregnancy
The urgent need for treatment may require a woman with a hematologic cancer to end an early-stage pregnancy, but not necessarily a later-stage one.
Surgery, chemotherapy for breast cancer usually okay in pregnancy
The majority of pregnant women with breast cancer can undergo surgery, chemotherapy, or both, but radiation therapy is generally not advised.
Some pregnancies can continue despite cervical, ovarian cancers
The current trend is to preserve pregnancy in women diagnosed with cervical or ovarian cancer whenever feasible, according to a recent review.
Patients Desire Involvement in Planning Breast CA Treatment
Preferences shift to wanting more say in decisions following breast cancer treatment consultation.
Information gap may skew mastectomy decisions
Women with early-stage breast cancer often lacked knowledge about their disease and were not asked their preference regarding surgery, according to recent survey findings.
Delicious hospital food? Yes! Cancer center kitchens focus on stimulating the appetite
Room service and other high-end dietary experiences are improving overall care at many cancer centers.
Women saddled with multiple preoperative breast imaging visits
Preoperative breast-imaging claims on multiple dates have been increasing substantially since 1992, suggesting that the patient’s time burden for such evaluation has also been increasing.
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